With Christmas Day around the corner, the annual debate has resurfaced about why it is celebrated with a national holiday and not any other religion. However, that is not why Liberia, and the US passed a law declaring Christmas Day a national holiday, but not Diwali, Yom Kippur, or Eid al-Fitr. Christmas is not a ‘religious’ holiday, unlike Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim festivals. Christmas is a religious, secular, cultural, and commercial phenomenon with its reindeer, Christmas trees, elves, and Sani Clauses. The former is a secular festival, while the latter is Christianity’s most important religious holiday.

Source: Front Page Africa December 21, 2021 14:14 UTC